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Practical Arduino Robotics

Practical Arduino Robotics

By : Lukas Kaul
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Practical Arduino Robotics

Practical Arduino Robotics

4.6 (11)
By: Lukas Kaul

Overview of this book

Every robot needs a “brain,” and the Arduino platform provides an incredibly accessible way to bring your Arduino robot to life. Anyone can easily learn to build and program their own robots with Arduino for hobby and commercial uses, making Arduino-based robots the popular choice for school projects, college courses, and the rapid prototyping of industrial applications! Practical Arduino Robotics is a comprehensive guide that equips you with the necessary skills and techniques that can be applied to various projects and applications, from automating repetitive tasks in a laboratory to building engaging mobile robots. Building on basic knowledge of programming and electronics, this book teaches you how to choose the right components, such as Arduino boards, sensors, and motors, and write effective code for your robotics project, including the use of advanced third-party Arduino libraries and interfaces, such as Analog, SPI, I2C, PWM, and UART. You'll also learn different ways to command your robots wirelessly, such as over Wi-Fi. Finally, with basic to advanced project examples, this book illustrates how to build exciting autonomous robots like a self-balancing telepresence robot. By the end of this book, you'll be able to design and create your own custom robots for a wide variety of applications.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Part 1: Selecting the Right Components for Your Robots
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Part 2: Writing Effective and Reliable Robot Programs for Arduino
10
Part 3: Building the Hardware, Electronics, and UI of Your Robot
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Part 4: Advanced Example Projects to Put Your Robotic Skills into Action

Testing and Debugging with the Arduino IDE

Testing and debugging are essential parts of every development process. Testing becomes more important and more difficult the more complex a robot is. As we have already seen, even a relatively simple Arduino robot consists of several physical subsystems, such as motors, sensors, batteries, the Arduino board itself, and all the wiring in between. The program that runs on your robot also consists of several components, including hardware interfaces, external libraries, and tasks that need to cooperate with one another to efficiently share CPU resources.

It is common for robot builders, especially less experienced ones, to build an entire robot, write the program for it, and then test the hardware and software all at once. It is very unlikely that everything works as expected on the first attempt, and trying to identify the underlying problems can be very difficult and a major source of frustration in this scenario. This approach is sometimes...

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